This assignment consists of 3 parts: questions about resourcing projects, schedule development and compression, and resource leveling. Part 1 Questions (20 points) Provide responses to the following questions 1. What is the purpose of a staffing management plan? What does it address? 2. Whom should the project manager consult when performing resource leveling? 3. Describe the two primary techniques for compressing a schedule? 4. When crashing a project schedule, describe the two criteria that are considered when considering which activities will be sped up.

Oceanside marine company manufactures special metallic materials and decorative fittings for luxury yachts that require highly skilled labor. oceanside uses standard costs to prepare its flexible budget. for the first quarter of the year, direct materials and direct labor standards for one of their popular products were as follows: direct materials: 2 pound per unit; $ 11 per pound direct labor: 2 hours per unit; $ 19 per hour oceanside produced 2 comma 000 units during the quarter. at the end of the quarter, an examination of the direct materials records showed that the company used 7 comma 500 pounds of direct materials and actual total materials costs were $ 98 comma 100. what is the direct materials cost variance? (round any intermediate calculations to the nearest cent, and your final answer to the nearest dollar.)

Evaluate a real situation between two economic actors; it could be any scenario: two competing businesses, two countries in negotiations, two kids trading baseball cards, you and another person involved in an exchange or anything else. use game theory to analyze the situation and the outcome (or potential outcome). be sure to explain the incentives, benefits and risks each face.

Assume you plan to start a new enterprise; you know the probability of having losses for the first three years of operations is almost 90 percent, and you know you will report a substantial amount of income from other sources during those same three years. from a tax perspective, which of the following entity choices would not allow you to offset the entity losses against your income from other sources? c corporation s corporation llc general partnership